Loci Method for Memory

Improvement
Team 3
PSYCH/635
February 11, 2019
Krista Bridgmon
 Agenda
• Introduction
• Correlation between Sleep and Memory Storage
• Define the Loci Method
• Applying the Loci Method
• Conclusion
Introduction
Research Information Regarding the Relationship
Between Sleep and Memory Storage

Two kinds of Memory

The Pattern of Learning

Stages of Sleep

How Sleep Helps the Most Challenging

Memories
 Research Information Regarding the Relationship
Between Sleep and Memory Storage (Cont.)

You Learn
Creativity Hormones How Well
Sleep and The Role of May Affect
Less Sleep
 The Loci Method

• What is the Loci Method

~Mnemonic Technique
• Training the Brain
~Exercise on Memorizing
a Grocery List
 Applying the Loci Method

• Memorizing through Poetry

• Reading the Poem aloud Multiple
Times
• Defining Unknown Words
• Internalizing the Underlying
Meaning of the Poem
 Applying the Loci Method
(Continued)

• Visual Retention
• Information Recall
• Creating a Personalized List
• Memorizing Through Self
Guidance
 • Prison rehabilitative services
Conclusion • Basic education
• Preventing recidivism
• Sleep/short-term to long-term
• Rapid eye movement/Slow wave sleep
• Memory Storage
• Loci Method for Memory Improvement
• Application in the prison venue
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